Mi. 25 März 2026

Justice Delayed and Justice Denied

Cover of the report "Justice Delayed and Justice Denied" 2025 edition with an image of Justitia put on a map of Europe

What happens when governments ignore the rulings of Europe’s highest courts? For thousands of citizens across the EU, the answer is a persistent denial of justice and a weakening of the rule of law that underpins our democracies. Since 2022, Democracy Reporting International and the European Implementation Network have jointly tracked how EU Member States implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU in an annual report: ‘Justice Delayed and Justice Denied’.  

The fourth edition of Justice Delayed and Justice Denied focusing on 2025 is now available online. 

The 2025 report

The 2025 edition of the report examines 382 CJEU rulings and 650 ECtHR rulings, exposing a pattern of delay, partial compliance, and, in some cases, outright defiance. Certain member States routinely leave judgments from European courts unimplemented for years; non-compliance is increasingly accompanied by open or implicit contestation of European courts’ authority by political actors and, at times, by top national courts. 
*Assessments on the ECtHR valid as of 1 January 2025 and CJEU data as of 1 May 2025 

Find out more about this and previous reports here.

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